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On Friday, 22 March 2019 22:58:05 UTC, Fox's Mercantile wrote:
On 3/22/19 4:45 PM, bitrex wrote:
Why is frequency stability important in a consumer-grade generator?



Obviously, you've never seen a ferro-resonant line conditioner set
fire to itself because it was running on 60 Hz.

This was a very real problem with remote radio sites, running on a
generator with Motorola Micro stations.


CVTs are obsolete and not used in homes anyway. That some things don't always survive portable gen power is not news. Portable gens have never had accurate frequency control, or accurate anything control.


NT